Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (Blu-ray)

Directed by Karel Reisz

Starring: Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Hylda Baker, Rachel Roberts, Bryan Pringle, Norman Rossington, Robert Cawdron, Elsie Wagstaff, Edna Morris, Frank Pettitt
Contributors: Alan Sillitoe, Johnny Dankworth, Tony Richardson, Harry Saltzman, Freddie Francis
Studio: BFI
Genre: Modern Classic
Main Language: English
Region: Region B
Release Date: 22 Jun 2015
Originally Issued: 1960
No of Discs: 1
BBFC Cert: (PG) Parental Guidance.
Run Time: 85 minutes

Description

Director Karel Reisz's adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's novel about a hard-living factory worker and the married woman he seduces. Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney) is a young man filled with a rage perhaps even he doesn't fully understand. Working in the tough environment of a Nottingham factory, he compensates for the drudgery and discipline of his weekday life with weekends spent drinking and womanising.

His affair with a fellow factory worker's wife, Brenda (Rachel Roberts), seems especially ill-advised - particularly when Brenda informs him that she is pregnant with his child. With abortion illegal at the time, Arthur and Brenda face a difficult dilemma. Will Arthur face up to the kind of domestic responsibilities he openly scorns in his own parents, or run harder than ever?

Special Features

• Interactive Menus
• Interviews: with Shirley Anne Field and Albert Finney
• Commentary: with writer Alan Sillitoe, film historian Robert Murphy and cinematographer Freddie Francis
• Other Documentary: 'We Are the Lambeth Boys' (1959)